Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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I have other fish to fry.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker.
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Honesty's the best policy.
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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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Little said is soon amended.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
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Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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Until death it is all life.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned books, just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
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Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.